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SMITH, James Edward. A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland. London: J. Davis for J. Sowerby, 1793 [-95].
Volume I (all published), 4° (277 x 223mm.). Half-title, 16 hand-coloured plates by James Sowerby. (Some slight spotting.) Contemporary green half morocco, gilt spine (slightly scuffed at extremities).
FIRST EDITION. The second illustrated monograph on Australian botany, preceded by J.G.A. Forster's work of 1786, and the first with hand-coloured plates. The original drawings had been made on the spot by John White. Between 1788 and 1794 White was resident in New South Wales and collected a considerable number of plants and made drawings of others, many of which he sent to Smith, who published some here and also in his Exotic Botany. This work was intended to be published with Shaw's Zoology of New Holland, which appeared in 1794. Nissen 1861; Henrey 1356 and volume II, pp.181-2; Great Flower Books p.76; Ferguson 170.
Volume I (all published), 4° (277 x 223mm.). Half-title, 16 hand-coloured plates by James Sowerby. (Some slight spotting.) Contemporary green half morocco, gilt spine (slightly scuffed at extremities).
FIRST EDITION. The second illustrated monograph on Australian botany, preceded by J.G.A. Forster's work of 1786, and the first with hand-coloured plates. The original drawings had been made on the spot by John White. Between 1788 and 1794 White was resident in New South Wales and collected a considerable number of plants and made drawings of others, many of which he sent to Smith, who published some here and also in his Exotic Botany. This work was intended to be published with Shaw's Zoology of New Holland, which appeared in 1794. Nissen 1861; Henrey 1356 and volume II, pp.181-2; Great Flower Books p.76; Ferguson 170.